So the reverse is true, right? Wife will not have sex unless ovulating or perform sex acts that can't result in pregnancy. Byebye blow jobs.

I was in the process of buying a house when he did the firings. About the sign the final paperwork and suddenly my agent is just gone with zero answers from Better. Deal almost fell apart. My dude was about to have his first kid. I was so pissed and wished I could switch to a different company. I will never use Better again.

This guy was the foundation of my cooking skills... 20 years ago. Damn.

Yeah, isn't there some law about social security and brain death...

You're thinking of WIC, not SNAP. It's only for pregnant women and kids under a certain age to make sure they have the bare minimum of nutritional needs met. And yeah, it comes with a ton of rules and limits. They've slightly modernized it, but you used to have to use checks that had the items listed and you had to buy it all at once or miss out for the month. There's a booklet that lists the item, with brands and sizes, that can be used. No substitutions or exceptions. And if something is miscoded, oh well. The items are 2% milk or soy milk, peanut butter, whole wheat bread/tortillas, canned fish, low sugar cereal, fruit juice and like $10 worth of fresh fruits and veggies. It can be life saving, but I remember the entire program being really demeaning and too difficult to utilize.

I'm going to sound like an absolute shill, but through a lot of experimenting with the typical otc perimenopause/hot flash pills, they just don't work. What worked for me is traditional Chinese Medicine Geng Nian An Pian and a wild yam cream. My hot flashes were out of control, like 20 times an hour, just constantly rolling. And all the other symptoms. It was the end of the world and I was losing my mind. After a month, I felt like a normal person again. It's been 3 months since I last had a hot flash.

Man, don't get my hopes up!

Ooooooh! Now my career path makes so much more sense.

Lol, no. I have 2 kids, 3 cats, an absent minded professor of a husband and perimenopause fuzzy brain. Nothing is ever put in a place than makes sense. I used to live in a world where I had perfect recall of every item in my house. Now I'm lucky if I find what I'm looking for in less than a week.

I hope it helps! I tried those seabands too and all they did was piss me off and trigger anxiety by having my wrists restrained. I have similar results with compression socks that Dr's always recommend. I haven't tried it, but I wonder if ear seeds will give similar results for acupressure, if it works for you. Just a thought. Sending stomach calming vibes your way. 🙃

Pregnancy sucks. It can have good parts but there are so very many bad parts that far outweigh it. And the fear, and guilt, and lack of support and validation. Guh. I'm sorry. Feel free to message me if you need to late night vent. I'm sure you've tried every trick. I took so much b12. The only thing that helped my nausea with my last pregnancy was acupressure. I couldn't afford acupuncture so I got one of those $20 metal pressure tools off of Amazon and a book out of the library. It worked, amazingly. And later on for other complaints.